E-PARASITE Act
Hey, you, the Americans, this post is for you precisely!
Have you heard about the E-Parasite bill?
It’s the latest and sadly most promising folly coming from Hollywood lobbyists. In their great trend to try and improve everyone’s lives, in order to avoid reflexion on renewing their outdated business model, they prefer to hit very hard on civil liberties and threaten your economy.
With that crazy bill, kiss goodbye to civil liberties. To freedom of speech. To free internet porn!. Europe and Asia will welcome with open arms half of your internet geniuses wanting to create billionaire firms.
The content industry’s lobbyists have forged two new bills, one in the Senate called Protect IP and one in the House called E-Parasites. These bills were written by the content industry without any input from the technology industry. And they are trying to fast track them through congress and into law without any negotiation with the technology industry.
The new house version of Protect IP is far worse than the Senate bill s.968 and it massively expands the sites that will be covered by the law. While the Senate bill limited its focus to sites that were ‘dedicated to infringing activities,’ the house bill targets ‘foreign infringing sites’ and ‘has only limited purpose or use other than infringement.’ They’re also including an ‘inducement’ claim, any foreign site declared by the Attorney General to be ‘inducing’ infringement, can now be censored by the US. With no adversarial hearing.
There’s just one problem: this crazy bill could pass. Seriously.
So, please, dear Americans, There’s an official petition about it. Or you can also contact your representatives, talk about it around you, tweet it etc. But please, don’t allow damn lobbyists from the middle ages to shoot you all in the brain!
You can read about it on the following pages, or download the bill itself as a PDF at the bottom of this post.
- E-PARASITE Bill: ‘The End Of The Internet As We Know It’
- Copyright bill revives Internet ‘death penalty’
- PROTECT-IP Act Becomes E-PARASITE
Download:
E-PARASITE Act
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